Demos v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
205 F.2d 596 · 1953
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Sherman v. United States (1958), Williamson v. United States (1962)
55 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Sorrells v. United States · Grimm v. United States · United States v. Sherman · Butts v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For the offense to originate in the mind of the defendant, it was not necessary that the defendant be the instigator of the particular sale or act, but only that she have the general intention to commit such an offense whenever the opportunity offered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the evidence will be reviewed by this Court only to prevent a manifest miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.